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Macron 'not in favour' of EU-US trade deal

French president Emmanuel Macron said he was "not in favour" of a "large trade agreement" between the EU and US, after European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and US president Donald Trump agreed to open talks. "We have some questions that we will want to clarify in the coming days with our European partners," he said on Thursday, insisting on reciprocity and the respect of EU sanitary and environmental standards.

This is a political crisis unprecedented in Austria since the war: the resignation of the vice-chancellor, firing of the interior minister, the mass resignation of FPO ministers, a snap election, and a no-confidence vote in the Austrian parliament on Monday.

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A planned high-speed railway connection through the Alps between Italy and France has been highly controversial for decades and is pitting governing Italian coalition parties against each other. But the European Commission insists it must go ahead.